#Ugly Girls Are Not Allowed

October 24^th marks United Nations Day, a day devoted to the leading global organization promoting international peace and development, including gender equality and women’s health.  I love the United Nations and I love the Millenium Development Goals.  I love the idea that the world is aspiring to reduce maternal mortality, increase female representation in society, and improve the quality of life for billions of women around the globe.  Perhaps that is why it is so frustrating that on the same day the United Nations celebrated the anniversary of its Charter, one of the most popular items on twitter took us back five million steps with #UglyGirlsAreNotAllowed.

Normally I can take twitter trends with a grain of salt and not get too emotional about the crap that people are talking about.  I don’t always love reading the constant stream of consciousness about how cute Justin Bieber is or how to know you’re ghetto, but admittedly I do find it fun to *replace my favourite movie titles with bacon on occasion.  Today, however, I let the TTs get into my head.

Here is my list of what I consider the top ten idiotic things that society believes ugly girls are not allowed to do, as taken from Twitter (spelling/grammar mistakes included).

#UglyGirlsAreNotAllowed:

1. to have a good time. lmao

2. to be in clubs with pretty cute or beautiful girls

3. to play hard to get.  you already hard to want

4. to be picky... yu have no authority acting stuck up!

5. to say "single and loving it" cause they dont have a choice.

6. to be dumb and broke.... because then u are completely pointless

7. to get mad at this TT 1st cuz it proves they think theyre ugly &2nd cuz they have no sense of humour *rolls eyes*

8. too text like your pretty... text like a ugly person...

9. to argue with a pretty girl about anything! I don't care if she thinks 1 plus 1 is 11.  She's right!

10. to say every dude wants them, Girl dont nobody want you, alive that is.... :-)

The things ugly girls are not allowed to do range from being seen with attractive people or communicating ‘like’ pretty girls (whatever that means), to people wanting you dead if you exude confidence.  If you are ugly you are not entitled to make choices.  If you find yourself with a jerk you deserve it for being ugly and you should actually be happy you managed to get anyone at all.  If you are also not rich or intelligent you are “pointless”, which doesn’t really matter because even if you are intelligent you’re not allowed to express it around beautiful people who apparently possess the ability to alter basic mathematics.  And even though these tweets are horrifying and treat women like their sole purpose is to provide eye candy for scuzzbags, ugly girls are not allowed to be offended because it means they have no sense of humour *rolls eyes*.

The fact that there is such a thing as plastic surgery is not “proof” of unattractiveness, as one tweeter suggested.  If it proves anything it’s that there is a constant and endless need to be more beautiful even if the standard of beauty we’re trying to attain can’t be achieved without being cut up and injected with gelatinous sludge. 

I know that I could probably just dismiss this twitter trend as a heap of nonsense spewed out by a bunch of losers with no future (at least that’s what my roommate begged me to do), but I just can’t help being super angry about it.  Not only is it damaging to the already low self-esteem of many women, but it also devalues other factors like intelligence in women.  And the real problem is that it’s not merely an isolated incident, so even if I don’t get all mental about it this time I know the next load of chauvinist crap is lurking just around the corner.  Acceptance is just a form of legitimization.  #UglyGirlsAreNotAllowed to stay quiet.

*Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bacon